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AWARD OF THE PRIZE MEDAL, AT THE ROYAL VETERINARY 
COLLEGE. 
At a meeting of the Council of the Veterinary Medical 
Association, held at the Royal Veterinary College, on the 
9 th of January last, it was unanimously agreed that the 
“ Prize Medal ” should be awarded to Mr. George Poyer 
M.R.C.V.S., Ashbourne, Derby, for his essay upon the 
subject put forward for competition, viz.: “The causes, 
symptoms and pathological conditions of the nasal, laryngeal, 
and tracheal passages, which give rise to roaring, whistling, 
and other abnormal sounds in the respiration of the horse, 
with the means of diagnosing the same.” 
A NEW DISEASE IN CATTLE. 
The stock farmer appears likely to have a new enemy to 
contend with in the shape of a disease which, although not of 
the precise nature of the one known as pleuro-pneumonia, is 
yet in its fatal results quite as much to be dreaded. The 
disease we allude to is centred in the lungs and air passages, 
the throat being in some instances inflamed. 
Professor Simonds, the Veterinary Inspector of the Royal 
Agricultural Society, has reported upon the disease as he 
found it existing in a herd of bullocks at Goodwood, belonging 
to His Grace the Duke of Richmond. Of forty beasts which 
the herd originally numbered, twenty-four only remained; 
sixteen having died from the effects of the disease. The 
animals were all of the Highland breed, and were purchased 
at Barnet fair, on the 4th of September last. 
In all the examination which were made of the dead bul- 
locks, the lungs were found to be very seriously affected ; in 
some cases they appear to have become indurated : water, 
however, appears to have been the prevailing cause of death, 
as in all the examined cases, large quanties of water were 
found on the chest. Water on the chest is, however, hardly 
to be called the cause of death in these cases. The progress 
of the disease w as too rapid, as it appears to us, to lead to the 
conclusion that water formed in these animals was the cause 
